Salmond has more tunes than a fiddle orchestra

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The First Minister was strutting the world stage yesterday making the case for Scotland to have greater economic powers in order to dig its way out of the financial crisis.

Alex Salmond's argument for greater fiscal freedom in order to reflate the economy was received by an audience of academics at Georgetown University in Washington with the kind of polite applause that you would expect from foreign academics.

The First Minister, who is never happier than when he is enjoying the limelight, will have revelled in the idea that if he can convince some of the finest brains in America